About 400 Rohingya at Risk of Perishing at Sea, U.N. Warns, Urging Rescue of Stranded Ships

TIME
By Koh Ewe
Updated: December 5, 2023 

A separate group of Rohingya refugees are stranded on a boat as the community where they arrived decided not to allow them to land after providing food and water, in Pineung, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Nov. 16, 2023.Amanda Jufrian—AFP/Getty Images

 

 About 400 Rohingya Muslims have been stuck at sea in Southeast Asia for at least two weeks, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which is calling for “urgent action” by governments in the region to locate and rescue the stranded passengers.

‘A catastrophe’: UN warns of intensifying violence in Myanmar

Aljazeera
11 Jun 2021

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says military government is ‘singularly responsible’ for violence and ‘must be held to account’.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said that multiple reports indicate that armed conflict is continuing, including in Kayah State, Chin State and Kachin State [File: Denis Balibouse/Reuters]

The United Nations human rights chief has warned that violence is intensifying across Myanmar, slamming the country’s military government for being “singularly responsible” for a “human rights catastrophe”.

UN warns of ‘standstill’ in Myanmar

TAIPEI TIMES

Sun, May 02, 2021

NOT BACKING DOWN: People took to the streets again, despite 759 protesters having been killed so far, while several small blasts were reported in places, including Yangon, Reuters

Protesters against military rule yesterday marched in Myanmar, three months after a coup ended a democratic transition, with several small blasts compounding a sense of crisis that a UN envoy warned could bring state administration to a halt.

The military has tried to end dissent and impose its authority on a people largely opposed to the return of rule by the generals after 10 years of democratic reforms that included a government led by deposed Burmese State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi.

Double crises of coup and Covid could push half of Myanmar's population into poverty, UN warns

CNN
By Helen Regan, 

April 30, 2021

Myanmar's control of Covid-19 collapses after coup 03:24

(CNN)Almost half of Myanmar's population could be forced into poverty by the end of the year as the country teeters on the brink of economic collapse caused by the double shock of a bloody military coup and the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations report.

Rising food costs, significant losses of income and wages, the crumbling of basic services such as banking and health care, and an inadequate social safety net is likely to push millions of already vulnerable people below the poverty line of $1.10 a day -- with women and children among the hardest hit.